Scan report ·

everlane.com

Mixed signal. Agents can reach the page, but guess from there.

Category · fashion

C
59 / 100
Mixed signal
Aisle Storefront · Simulated twin
This scan found 5 weaknesses an agent would hit at checkout, so we planted the same mechanisms in a simulated storefront. Watch an agent shop it, or send your own.
Aisle Max · Remediation packet
Every fix this scan flagged, one card at a time: ranked by points per effort, with copy-paste snippets, per-fix downloads, and a plan your AI coding agent can execute.
Discoverability
A
18 / 20
Machine Readability
B
14 / 20
Transactability
B
13 / 20
Agent Posture
D
6 / 15
Trust Signals
C
6 / 10
Agent-Native Content
E
2 / 15

Narrative

Everlane scores 59 out of 100, a mixed signal that reflects a site built for humans who read marketing copy, not agents that parse specifications. The plumbing an AI shopper needs to find and price a product is largely in place: robots.txt at everlane.com/robots.txt greets GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, and six other crawlers with open arms, JSON-LD Product plus Offer markup hits nine out of nine sampled PDPs, and raw HTML prices resolve without JavaScript on every product tested. But once an agent tries to actually understand what it is buying, or transact on behalf of a user, the surface gets rough.

The most expensive miss is agent-native content, where Everlane loses nine points across four checks. Specification completeness scored 0 of 4: only one PDP out of nine surfaced concrete facts like material composition, fit, or dimensions in a form the classifier could extract, with pages like the women's city boot in sand suede returning nothing beyond "$125.00 away from free standard shipping" and "30-Day Easy Returns." Conversational descriptions scored 0 of 2. Decision-support metadata (size charts, fit guides, review breakdowns) scored 0 of 3. Delivery dates scored 0 of 2, with only two of nine pages surfacing even unstructured speed language and zero structured shipping schema. For a brand whose entire marketing identity rests on "radical transparency" about materials and factories, the absence of machine-readable material and fit data on the product pages themselves is a strategic own-goal.

The second wound is transactability, where the checkout flow scored 2 of 6 and guest checkout scored 2 of 4. Everlane's /checkout endpoint returned a 403 to the scanner and would not render without an initialized cart, which triggered a blind spot. The cart page surfaces "SIGN UP / LOG IN" but no visible "continue as guest" affordance. Combined with CAPTCHA at 0 of 4 (reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha detected on both cart and homepage, flagged as transaction-blocking), an agent attempting an end-to-end purchase runs directly into human-verification walls at exactly the wrong moment. Shop Pay, PayPal, and Apple Pay are all present, and the Shopify /cart endpoint is accessible, so the rails exist. The gate is the CAPTCHA.

Structured attributes and inventory are half-finished. Product attributes structured scored 3 of 6: seven of nine PDPs carry brand, MPN, and SKU in JSON-LD, but two (the black suede city boot and the navy dolman silk top) carry none. Inventory signals scored 2 of 5 because every page hits only the partial band, mixing schema availability with text availability but never surfacing shipping or ETA in schema. The sitemap at everlane.com/sitemap.xml contains just 9 URLs with no product entries and no lastmod timestamps, costing another 2 points.

Trust and posture round out the drag. Stated agent policy scored 0 of 2 (terms and privacy are silent on automated access), merchant verifiability scored 1 of 3 (no physical address, no registration ID), and return policy scored 1 of 3 (window present, conditions and process absent from machine-readable form).

The biggest opportunity: strip the CAPTCHAs off cart and homepage and publish the material, fit, and delivery-date data Everlane already has in structured form on the product page.

ADiscoverability

Robots, sitemap, agent endpoints. strong.

AI crawler posture: 6/6
https://everlane.com/robots.txt
1.1 · 6/6
Structured product data coverage: 6/6
sample · https://www.everlane.com/products/womens-way-high-sailor-jean-2-long-washed-indigo
1.2 · 6/6
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Sitemap quality: 2/4
https://everlane.com/sitemap.xml
How to fixPro
1.3 · 2/4
Agent-specific endpoints: 4/4
https://everlane.com/.well-known/ai-plugin.json
1.4 · 4/4

BMachine Readability

Schema coverage, raw-HTML price, inventory, variants. mostly strong.

Price in raw HTML: 8/8
sample · https://www.everlane.com/products/womens-way-high-sailor-jean-2-long-washed-indigo
2.1 · 8/8
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Product attributes structured: 3/6
sample · https://www.everlane.com/products/womens-way-high-sailor-jean-2-long-washed-indigo
How to fixPro
2.2 · 3/6
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Inventory signals: 2/5
sample · https://www.everlane.com/products/womens-way-high-sailor-jean-2-long-washed-indigo
How to fixPro
2.3 · 2/5
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Variant handling: 1/1
sample · https://www.everlane.com/products/womens-way-high-sailor-jean-2-long-washed-indigo
How to fixPro
2.5 · 1/1

BTransactability

Checkout flow, guest, transparency, payment rails, cart API. mostly strong.

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Checkout flow structure: 2/6
How to fixPro
3.1 · 2/6
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Guest checkout availability: 2/4
How to fixPro
3.2 · 2/4
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Price transparency signals: 3/4
How to fixPro
3.3 · 3/4
Machine-native payment rails: 3/3
3.4 · 3/3
Cart API accessibility: 3/3
3.5 · 3/3

DAgent Posture

Bot detection, CAPTCHA, rate limiting, stated agent policy. gappy.

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Bot detection aggressiveness: 3/6
How to fixPro
4.1 · 3/6
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CAPTCHA prevalence: 0/4
How to fixPro
4.2 · 0/4
Rate limiting posture: 3/3
4.3 · 3/3
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Stated agent policy: 0/2
How to fixPro
4.4 · 0/2

CTrust Signals

Return policy, merchant verifiability, price history, third-party anchors. partial.

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Return policy machine-readable: 1/3
https://everlane.com/policies/refund-policy
How to fixPro
5.1 · 1/3
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Merchant verifiability: 1/3
How to fixPro
5.2 · 1/3
Price history signals: 2/2
5.3 · 2/2
Third-party trust anchors: 2/2
5.4 · 2/2

EAgent-Native Content

Specs, descriptions, decision support, delivery, stability, absence of manipulation. broken.

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Specification completeness: 0/4
sample · https://www.everlane.com/products/womens-way-high-sailor-jean-2-long-washed-indigo
How to fixPro
6.1 · 0/4
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Conversational product descriptions: 0/2
sample · https://www.everlane.com/products/womens-way-high-sailor-jean-2-long-washed-indigo
How to fixPro
6.2 · 0/2
×
Decision-support metadata: 0/3
sample · https://www.everlane.com/products/womens-way-high-sailor-jean-2-long-washed-indigo
How to fixPro
6.3 · 0/3
×
Delivery date transparency: 0/2
sample · https://www.everlane.com/products/womens-way-high-sailor-jean-2-long-washed-indigo
How to fixPro
6.4 · 0/2
×
Price stability signals: 0/2
sample · https://www.everlane.com/products/womens-way-high-sailor-jean-2-long-washed-indigo
How to fixPro
6.5 · 0/2
Absence of manipulation tactics: 2/2
6.6 · 2/2